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The Luwian reading has not been adopted by Aegean or Anatolian specialists, and its sign derivations from Egyptian are…

The Luwian reading has not been adopted by Aegean or Anatolian specialists, and its sign derivations from Egyptian are disputed one by one.

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What it means

Key questionWhat language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?
6 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Still possiblewas No evidence yet

Next steps 4

1
Build an open sign-level table of the CHIC clay documents (H 1 to 122): document id, site, object type, each sign group in CHIC sign numbers with position, logograms and numerals; licence the table separately from CHIC's images. This is the prerequisite for every test below.
~40 h
—not judged
2
Build an open sign-level table of the CHIC clay documents in CHIC sign numbers.
~40 h
—not judged
3
Compare word-initial and word-final frequencies of the signs shared with Linear A in that table against SigLA/GORILA Linear A and against Linear B Greek, with a shuffled-sign null model, to test whether Cretan Hieroglyphic patterns like Linear A (H-MINOAN).
~12 h
—not judged
4
Apply the Corazza et al. 2021 Linear A fraction values to the hieroglyphic fraction signs (CHIC 301 to 309) on every clay document with a total, and report how many totals add up versus random value assignments.
~8 h
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Luwian reading has not been adopted by Aegean or Anatolian specialists, and its sign derivations from Egyptian are… [Evidence EVD0DEEAQ7XSEHY]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAQ7XSEHY
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